Localization Today

By Marjolein Groot Nibbelink This year, MultiLingual magazine was crowned with an APEX Award for Publication Excellence, a top awards program for independent publishers. The magazine’s former publisher reflects on how the winning issue was produced and what the award means for the publication’s devoted staff and readers.

By Ewandro Magalhães The author reflects on the slow pace of technological progress in the interpretation space, from the advent of simultaneous interpreting in 1945 to the dawn of remote work in 2020. Now, with the emergence of AI-based machine interpreting, he urges both individual interpreters and language service providers to embrace these new, innovative solutions.

From blending technology with creativity to elevating localization to a strategic level within the organization, Francesca shares her take on innovation, efficiency, and the evolving role of localization in software development. This conversation highlights the bold strategies that set Phrase apart and inspire the localization industry.

From carving ancient symbols into wood to publishing An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets, Tim Brooks reveals the beauty and struggles of the world’s rarest writing systems. These scripts are more than symbols—they are lifelines of culture, identity, and history. In his book, discover stories like the revival of the Ahom script in India, once thought lost, now a symbol of pride and resilience for its people. Saving these alphabets isn't just preserving words—it's safeguarding the voices of entire communities.

The following is our conversation with Anna Rita DeBonis, Ph.D. candidate in Intercultural Relations and International Management at the Universidad de Glistuti Internationali di Roma, and Amanda Alvarado, solutions consultant at Artable Us.

In our conversation with Mugais Jahangir. He's the Chief Revenue Officer at memoq. What was really interesting about this conversation is that we did not suspect some companies are not interested in integrating artificial intelligence in their processing. Mugais talks to us about those that are not yet looking into artificial intelligence and those that are. The contrast is amazing. I hope you enjoyed this conversation.

A conversation with Farbod Mansorian, the founder and CEO of Unilingo. After producing over 5,000 videos and reaching 50 billion views across 14 languages, Farbod shares his vision for YouTube dubbing, insights on content localization, and his thoughts on the future of the language industry.

Our conversation with Fabio Minazzi, Director of Audiovisual Services at Translated. Before this conversation, we did not know that he was going to win the Product innovation challenge at LocWorld52. Congratulations, Fabio!

We sit down with Translated's Marco Trombetti to explore LARA, their latest AI launch. We’ll go into how LARA is set to redefine machine translation by enhancing accuracy, context-awareness, and cultural nuance.

We discuss memoQ's recent acquisition of Globalese and the technological synergies between the two companies, along with their vision for AI-powered translation solutions.